> Showm me photo before I believe the screen becomes useless. And it WILL scratch. > It's a device that you use constantly in not-very-friendly enviroment.
What a load of bollocks. I have a Sony Ericsson cell that I frequently keep in my pocket and neither the screen nor the body itself is scratched or dented. Why shouldn't iPod owners be able to use their expensive player in a similar way without it ending up looking like this?
While I agree that the new IE7 looks like a huge letdown, I just want to point out that IE has supported inline searching (via a registry hack or a small freeware program from Microsoft) since IE 5.0 (!).
> It runs acroread slowly, instead of loading in my already opened browser quickly
Reader 7.0 runs okay here. It's no speed monster, but it's noticeably faster than earlier versions of the program.
> Uses huge ugly fonts
Christ. This is not the format's fault! Blame the content creator for being a lousy designer. If you use nice typefaces, PDF will display them just fine. You could go for a nice looking type like Adobe Garamond Pro.
> Has silly graphics that bring nothing to the point
Again a designer problem. You're really bad at this trolling thing, you know.:waycool:
> Something I've waited for years and it never come--maybe someone can explain why: client-side SSL.
Such a thing already exists... in Denmark. It's completely free to get a certificate mailed to you and you can use it to authenticate for a multitude of do-it-yourself online services like tax returns and other state/county forms. I think it works quite well.
This "guide" recommends that gaming systems disable things like the Cryptographic Services (thus completely butchering Windows updates). How on earth is that informative?
All Windows users should subscribe to Microsoft's security advisories by email. They cater to both technical people and people who just want an easy-to-understand digest with some links.
> NetScan = This is Google Groups.. searches USENET newsgroups
It's the same in that both deal with usenet, but that's about all they have in common.
NetScan is a data miner that lets you do some pretty advanced data manipulation and comparisons. Take a look at one of the reports it generates. It'll tell you how many regular posters a group has. It'll tell you how many posters only posted once in a given group. It'll even let you dig up lots and lots of scary data on a specific author!
Lots of very good points, but one thing that's often overlooked is the insane amount of customization that Mozilla/Firefox affords power users. Don't like a specific menu or right-click menu? Hide it. Don't like how a certain part of the program behaves? Change it.
You can change just about anything even without being a programmer. IE can't match that by a mile.
Almost as silly as "Under Construction" gifs
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I don't understand this beta nonsense. Once it's launched, it's launched I'd say. It's fine that Google labels GMail as beta since it's relatively closed at the moment and hasn't had a "proper" launch yet.
Google News, on the other hand, might as well use a stupid animated "Under Construction" gif for their pages, since it seems to be in perpetual beta. The service launched (ie. left the Google Labs) all the way back in September, 2002!
> You know, I don't care. Its not like I have the secrets to nuclear weapons research, nor do I > have tomorrows stock market numbers. I and average Joe 24 Pack.
But you and Joe 24-Pack both have credit cards, right? The story mentions that this could be used to steal your pincode.
I know that the story has a disclaimer at the end, but if whoever does credit card scams could make this work, it seems like it's more than just an academic exercise.
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> Uh, toolbar customisation in Firefox is hardly something new...
That wasn't his point; it's new in this version of the Google Toolbar.
> Showm me photo before I believe the screen becomes useless. And it WILL scratch.
> It's a device that you use constantly in not-very-friendly enviroment.
What a load of bollocks. I have a Sony Ericsson cell that I frequently keep in my pocket and neither the screen nor the body itself is scratched or dented. Why shouldn't iPod owners be able to use their expensive player in a similar way without it ending up looking like this?
That's great, but that problem is already solved in Mozilla (and Opera).
p olicy-list.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-
That was a fucking great posting. Kudos.
Thanks. I'll give that client a try.
> I know of only one jabber client currently that's usable on a daily basis
Does that client have a name and does it run under Windows?
While I agree that the new IE7 looks like a huge letdown, I just want to point out that IE has supported inline searching (via a registry hack or a small freeware program from Microsoft) since IE 5.0 (!).
> It runs acroread slowly, instead of loading in my already opened browser quickly
:waycool:
Reader 7.0 runs okay here. It's no speed monster, but it's noticeably faster than earlier versions of the program.
> Uses huge ugly fonts
Christ. This is not the format's fault! Blame the content creator for being a lousy designer. If you use nice typefaces, PDF will display them just fine. You could go for a nice looking type like Adobe Garamond Pro.
> Has silly graphics that bring nothing to the point
Again a designer problem. You're really bad at this trolling thing, you know.
Please stay far away from PHPNuke. Not only is a terribly bland and badly designed CMS, but the code is also a complete security nightmare.
You don't want your site hacked by some bored South American teenagers just because you forgot to apply this week's PHP-Nuke band-aid.
> Anyone knows his name?
Are you thinking of JWZ?
> There are proper Win32 ports out there, though.
Do go on, please.
> Something I've waited for years and it never come--maybe someone can explain why: client-side SSL.
Such a thing already exists... in Denmark. It's completely free to get a certificate mailed to you and you can use it to authenticate for a multitude of do-it-yourself online services like tax returns and other state/county forms. I think it works quite well.
> http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=1363 &t=63
:(
This is only marginally better than the Outwar spam crap. I wonder why Mozilla.org opted for this lousy form of marketing?
> The mozilla suite is a clone of netscape communicator. Firefox is a clone of netscape navigator.
You have never used Mozilla or Firefox, have you?
> Are Pringles even available in Demmark?
They are. You can get them in most super markets.
This "guide" recommends that gaming systems disable things like the Cryptographic Services (thus completely butchering Windows updates). How on earth is that informative?
This story just seems to be posted to drive traffic to a blog. Why do the Slashdot editors allow this?
The proper stories are posted at sportsillustrated.cnn.com (printer friendly) and computerworld.com (printer friendly) respectively. Click those links instead.
All Windows users should subscribe to Microsoft's security advisories by email. They cater to both technical people and people who just want an easy-to-understand digest with some links.
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Subscribe here:
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/no
Considering that autocomplete already is driven by machine learning, I think what you're asking for is bugfixes...
> AutoPatcher
Let me get this straight; you trust security updates from a site that chooses to use warez (!) newsgroups as one of its distribution systems?
> NetScan = This is Google Groups.. searches USENET newsgroups
It's the same in that both deal with usenet, but that's about all they have in common.
NetScan is a data miner that lets you do some pretty advanced data manipulation and comparisons. Take a look at one of the reports it generates. It'll tell you how many regular posters a group has. It'll tell you how many posters only posted once in a given group. It'll even let you dig up lots and lots of scary data on a specific author!
Google can't do any of this.
> it is called Real Alternative - found here
Real Alternative isn't a legal repack. Don't ask me why Real hasn't gone after them. Perhaps they fear more bad PR?
Lots of very good points, but one thing that's often overlooked is the insane amount of customization that Mozilla/Firefox affords power users. Don't like a specific menu or right-click menu? Hide it. Don't like how a certain part of the program behaves? Change it.
You can change just about anything even without being a programmer. IE can't match that by a mile.
I don't understand this beta nonsense. Once it's launched, it's launched I'd say. It's fine that Google labels GMail as beta since it's relatively closed at the moment and hasn't had a "proper" launch yet.
Google News, on the other hand, might as well use a stupid animated "Under Construction" gif for their pages, since it seems to be in perpetual beta. The service launched (ie. left the Google Labs) all the way back in September, 2002 !
> You know, I don't care. Its not like I have the secrets to nuclear weapons research, nor do I
> have tomorrows stock market numbers. I and average Joe 24 Pack.
But you and Joe 24-Pack both have credit cards, right? The story mentions that this could be used to steal your pincode.
I know that the story has a disclaimer at the end, but if whoever does credit card scams could make this work, it seems like it's more than just an academic exercise.